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Ancestral geneology of SEC people

Posted on 7/25/14 at 12:45 pm
Posted by Harry Rex Vonner
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Posted on 7/25/14 at 12:45 pm
I haven't been here long, but I doubt this is an overused offseason topic, so you can start giving me credit already.

Obviously most SEC people are from Europe and Africa. More specifically, lots of Scotch Irish among the white folks, and I have no idea which African countries (this thread will help us drill down on that).

But I think we should start with Texas A&M and Mizzou fans.

Mizzou fans are originally from Germany, or as my father always said "those damn Germans in Missouri." Dad's a longtime Cardinals fan, per old KMOX radio like the rest of mid America, but that doesn't mean he likes Germans. Let's just say it like it is: My dad don't like damn Germans. I do know, for a fact, that some of them use Stove Top stuffing on Thanksgiving. So on that fact alone, my dad is correct.

A&M fans arrived in Texas on a boat that wheeled it's way down the coast and around the Gulf from Iceland or Nova Scotia. This was before Ponce de Leon.

(before or after Cajuns? I don't know)

Real Texans hated Aggies from the start, and I've heard they still do. I did sit among Aggies last year, and I'll say they were great people for the most part. But..., Nova Scotians are basically just English, which means Aggies are loyal to the crown of England, and should not be welcome in America. Nice as they are, they need to go.

Let's go ahead and do Vandy real quick. They're from everywhere, alot of Ohio I think, so I don't know what to say here. I'll leave the Vandy mess alone, except to say I've seen alot of strippers in Nashville and they seemed to be Scotch Irish.

Who wants to take Kentucky and South Carolina next? dirty aubie?
Posted by DirtyDawg
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Posted on 7/25/14 at 12:47 pm to
I would assume anglo-saxon for around 75% of the SEC East


ETA: nvm I forgot we had Mizzou and their German heritage throws my numbers out the window
This post was edited on 7/25/14 at 12:57 pm
Posted by Tennessee Jed
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Posted on 7/25/14 at 12:53 pm to
East TN was predominately settled by the Scotch-Irish.
Posted by TRUERockyTop
Appalachia
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Posted on 7/25/14 at 12:54 pm to
East TN is very Scotch-Irish for the most part.

Decent amount of Germans behind that
Posted by TheDrunkenTigah
Baton Rouge
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Posted on 7/25/14 at 12:57 pm to
I suspect Argonian miscegenation amongst the Arkansas faithful.
Posted by madmaxvol
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Posted on 7/25/14 at 12:59 pm to
quote:

Let's go ahead and do Vandy real quick. They're from everywhere, alot of Ohio I think, so I don't know what to say here


This is a map identifying where 2013 Vanderbilt undergraduates came from.

More from New York and New Jersey (combined) than from Tennessee.



This post was edited on 7/25/14 at 1:00 pm
Posted by TexasAg13
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Member since Jul 2013
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Posted on 7/25/14 at 1:01 pm to
quote:

A&M fans arrived in Texas on a boat that wheeled it's way down the coast and around the Gulf from Iceland or Nova Scotia. This was before Ponce de Leon.


Nope. We're all from Mexico
Posted by speckledtrout
Birmingham, AL
Member since Apr 2011
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Posted on 7/25/14 at 1:05 pm to
Posted by Sid E Walker
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Member since Nov 2013
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Posted on 7/25/14 at 1:10 pm to
I would guess that cornmeal, oil, and pork byproducts would be the ancestral origins of the LSU folks.
Posted by Phat Phil
Krispy Kreme
Member since May 2010
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Posted on 7/25/14 at 1:11 pm to
East Tennesseans (Appalachia) are Scot-Irish decents. Everybody else in the SEC are Anglo-Saxons or Germans I guess.
Posted by piggilicious
Member since Jan 2011
37299 posts
Posted on 7/25/14 at 1:11 pm to
quote:

Mizzou fans are originally from German


my dad was of german ancestry- we never ate stove top at my house.

Posted by UFownstSECsince1950
Member since Dec 2009
32607 posts
Posted on 7/25/14 at 1:20 pm to
quote:

A&M fans arrived in Texas on a boat that wheeled it's way down the coast and around the Gulf from Iceland or Nova Scotia. This was before Ponce de Leon.
uhhhh, NO
Posted by Kentucker
Cincinnati, KY
Member since Apr 2013
19351 posts
Posted on 7/25/14 at 1:30 pm to
Kentucky was a county of Virginia when the east coast was being settled so there are a great many of us descended from the British Isles.

I had my DNA analyzed and discovered I'm 95% Irish and 5% Norwegian. My family's American lineage dates back to 1741 so a person of Norwegian descent worked his or her way in there at some point.
Posted by crispyUGA
Upstate SC
Member since Feb 2011
15919 posts
Posted on 7/25/14 at 1:31 pm to
The South Carolina Lowcountry was/is primarily Anglo-Saxon with a strong French Huguenot influence as well as Scots-Irish. Charleston was a huge port so it was a bit of a melting pot. The Upstate was greatly influenced by the Scots-Irish due to the Great Wagon Road.
Posted by Reservoir dawg
Member since Oct 2013
14124 posts
Posted on 7/25/14 at 1:33 pm to
Mississippi is mostly Scot-Irish, and Italian mixed with Choctaw.
Posted by roadhouse
Chicago
Member since Sep 2013
2703 posts
Posted on 7/25/14 at 2:21 pm to
quote:

or as my father always said "those damn Germans in Missouri


Sounds like he's jealous of our genetic superiority.
Posted by MoreLawdawg
Atlanta
Member since Apr 2014
232 posts
Posted on 7/25/14 at 2:42 pm to
I'm originally from the DC metro area but my ancestors were slaves in Mississippi. A few years ago our family used DNA to trace our roots back to what is present day Sierra Leone. The slave ship was likely a schooner that arrived somewhere on the Georgia coast circa 1839.
Posted by heartbreakTiger
grinding for my grinders
Member since Jan 2008
138974 posts
Posted on 7/25/14 at 3:18 pm to
bama fans are the retarded off spring of a monkey and fish fricking
Posted by genuineLSUtiger
Nashville
Member since Sep 2005
73010 posts
Posted on 7/25/14 at 3:52 pm to
quote:

Real Texans hated Aggies from the start, and I've heard they still do. I did sit among Aggies last year, and I'll say they were great people for the most part. But..., Nova Scotians are basically just English, which means Aggies are loyal to the crown of England, and should not be welcome in America. Nice as they are, they need to go.


Upvote for you sir.
Posted by SNAKE
Lafayette/Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2007
705 posts
Posted on 7/25/14 at 4:48 pm to
Oglethorpe brought debtors from England to settle Ga. The hard-core criminal element of this group went to Alabama. They migrated past Columbus and Auburn on westward to the Tuscaloosa area . Over the years they have managed to stay out of trouble by
paying judges and policemen from a secret payroll that cannot be found
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